Alistar with Taric
How to Synergize Alistar and Taric
based on 59 Alistar with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Taric Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Taric
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Taric
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Alistar Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Taric helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Taric, he sees a big jump in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Taric provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Taric. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Taric.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Taric on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Taric does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Taric
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Taric?
There is no perfect companion for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Taric is a below average companion for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Alistar and Taric that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when finding Taric allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Alistar and Taric together, you may not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Taric teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to synergize with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Alistar and Taric synergy build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's Convergence, and Thornmail. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar and Taric pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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